Read article 'Swiss Light Source set to be a world-class facility'
October 2001 saw the inauguration of the Swiss Light Source at the Paul Scherrer Institute. As Peter-Raymond Kettle reports, the source gives Switzerland a world-class synchrotron radiation facility.
Read article 'DESY workshop combines gravity and particle physics'
Gravity and particle physics took centre stage at last year's DESY theory workshop. As chairman of the organizing committee Dieter Lüst reports, there was plenty to talk about.
Read article 'Space-time symmetry is put to the test'
Symmetries underpin much of modern physics and, as a consequence, are sensitive probes for new phenomena. Neil Russell reports from a recent meeting held at Indiana University, where physicists discus...
Read article 'Entangled states allow radical change'
Read article 'Superbends expand the scope of Berkeley’s ALS'
The first-ever retrofit of superconducting bend magnets into the storage ring of an operating synchrotron radiation source extended the spectrum of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Advanced L...
Read article 'CERN hosts major magnet conference'
Represented in the MT-17 delegate list were 27 countries, giving an indication of the growing importance of magnet technology. An industrial exhibition at the conference was attended by 30 companies. ...
Read article 'Climbing out of the nuclear valley'
With nuclear physics largely confined to a narrow band of stable isotopes, a new US machine aims to provide a wider nuclear perspective.
Read article 'Hands-on particles appeal to students'
It is not true that particle physics - the underlying mechanisms of the universe - can only be understood after a long and difficult apprenticeship. To reach out and appeal to young students, Erik Joh...
Read article 'Accelerator tradition is thriving at Brookhaven'
When the Brookhaven National Laboratory was established in 1947 at Long Island’s Camp Upton, it inherited barracks, recreational facilities and a stockade for prisoners of war. Today the barracks re...
Read article 'Cornell’s laboratory is at the crossroads'
In 1979, Cornell University switched on the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, ushering in more than two decades of pre-eminence in the physics of b quarks. With the b-quark crown now passing to the B-me...
